diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 879b77b..46367ce 100755
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Release History
 master
 ------
 
+0.8.1 (2020-07-21)
+------------------
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+* [#169](https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/issues/169) Fix import error caused by `pdfminer.six==20200720`. [#171](https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/pull/171) by Vinayak Mehta.
+
 0.8.0 (2020-05-24)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/camelot/__version__.py b/camelot/__version__.py
index 1eb9ce8..ce1b231 100644
--- a/camelot/__version__.py
+++ b/camelot/__version__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-VERSION = (0, 8, 0)
+VERSION = (0, 8, 1)
 PRERELEASE = None  # alpha, beta or rc
 REVISION = None